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Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

by Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it

Using a TypeDescriptionProvider to support dynamic run-time properties

by Nish Nishant

This articles explains how to implement a TypeDescriptionProvider for a class to support multiple object types using a single class type

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

by Marc Clifton

Review your project dependencies.

An extensible ExifReader class with customizable tag handlers

by Nish Nishant

An ExifReader class in C# that supports custom formatting and extraction. StyleCop compliant code, with demos for WPF and Windows Forms.

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Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 3)

by Ralf Meier

The article walks through ShellySceneComponent and ShellyScenesComponent, which allow users to define scenes with multiple actions assigned to a control or controls for Shelly devices.

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 2)

by Ralf Meier

This article is a continuation of a series on controlling Shelly® devices in a smart home. It introduces a component that works with standard controls without requiring adaptation.

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

Testable WinForms Applications

by Mirnes Mrkaljevic

Make WinForms testable

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Windows Forms

Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

9 May 2012 by Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it

Using a TypeDescriptionProvider to support dynamic run-time properties

16 Jun 2008 by Nish Nishant

This articles explains how to implement a TypeDescriptionProvider for a class to support multiple object types using a single class type

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

17 Jun 2009 by Marc Clifton

Review your project dependencies.

An extensible ExifReader class with customizable tag handlers

29 Mar 2010 by Nish Nishant

An ExifReader class in C# that supports custom formatting and extraction. StyleCop compliant code, with demos for WPF and Windows Forms.

InternetToolTip

2 Dec 2011 by Florian Rappl

A better ToolTip for Windows Forms and more.

WinForms WebBrowser + HTTP Server

18 Apr 2010 by Nicholas Butler

A tiny HTTP server wrapped in a WebBrowser control

Calcoolation: A Math Puzzle Board Game

6 Aug 2009 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Demo for a math puzzle board game

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents

31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features

Excel Automation - With Clean Exit/Quit

11 Sep 2011 by Anshul Mehra

This article provide APIs & functionality so that Excel Quits after automation

A C# 3D Surface Plot Control

19 Feb 2021 by Leif Simon Goodwin

A 3D surface plot control in C#

WIA Scanner in C# Windows Forms

4 Jul 2014 by Chakravarthi Elchuri

How to use WIA supported scanner using C#

C# Docx to HTML to Docx

22 Dec 2016 by Ozesh Thapa

Converting Docx To Html to Docx

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

28 Nov 2011 by Akos Orban

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

12 Oct 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

Virtual Mode ListView

11 Sep 2009 by yetibrain

A listview running in virtual mode

MIDI Out Setter

10 May 2009 by DaveyM69

Allows changing of the default MIDI out device in Vista and Windows 7

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 13 – DropDownColorPicker

15 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 20 – QuickAccessToolbar

23 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.

Extract Images and Icons of .NET Resources

17 Nov 2011 by Timur Eroglu

List and extract .NET resources

Safe WinForms Databinding

5 Aug 2009 by Cosmin Oprea (aka somalezu)

This article describes a very simple way to make WinForms databindings without the need to refer the datasource property names with magic strings.

Populate TreeView Menu with XML

10 Sep 2009 by ralph1957

This step-by step article describes how to populate a TreeView control by using XML data.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 5 - Application Menu with SplitButton and DropButton

6 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 8 – ComboBox

9 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 18 – ContextPopup

22 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.

Looking for an auto-completing text box for a VB.NET app

2 Nov 2010 by Nish Nishant

Looks like you are looking for an auto-complete textbox. If so, see:http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/AutoCompleteTextBox.aspx[^]It's written in C#, but you can use that from VB.NET.

Random Name Generation Using Markov Chains

31 Oct 2016 by phil.o

This article describes the building of Markov Chains and their use for generating random names or words.

Orbital Mechanics Introduction

23 Dec 2018 by charles922

Introduction to Orbital Mechanics - 2 Body Problem

Icon Menu for the .NET Compact Framework

21 Apr 2009 by Fredrik Bornander

How to implement an iPhone style icon menu using the .NET Compact Framework.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 6 – Tabs, Groups and HelpButton

7 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 15 – Use Ribbon as External DLL

19 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 16 – ApplicationModes

20 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.

WinForms + Sciter: Embeddable HTML/CSS/TIScript Control for Modern UI Development

17 Jan 2019 by Ramon F. Mendes

A lightweight HTML control for WinForms

How to Upload a File to a WebDAV Server in VB.NET

14 May 2009 by CS Rocks

This article demonstrates how to upload a file to a (HTTPS) WebDAV server in VB.NET.

Voice and Text Conferencing Library

14 Feb 2010 by Irfan alam

A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 4 - Application Menu with Buttons

4 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 12 – CheckBox and ToggleButton

14 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 17 – Contextual Tabs

21 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 19 – RecentItems

23 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.

XTree - A Generic Implementation

30 Nov 2011 by Marc Clifton

Revisiting the XTree implementation, using a generic controller.

multithreaded application ...

8 Mar 2013 by Michael Haephrati

Generally speaking you need to use separate threads for the loading. I don't know what your application does during these long seconds, but whatever is done, can be done in the background. During that time you can display a Splash screen (static or animated one), so the end user will not feel...

Component for Customizing Menu Shortcuts

21 Oct 2008 by Günther M. FOIDL

A component that allows the customization of menu shortcuts. This can be useful for barrier free applications.

NET Debugging: Dump All Strings from a Managed Code Process Running

3 Nov 2011 by Rene Pally

Advanced Debugging Processes

19 Feb 2010 by Uwe Keim

Small tool to monitor the clipboard for images and upload them to Twitpic

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 14 – FontControl

16 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.

How to change forecolor of text when textbox is readonly

3 Apr 2012 by Alan N

There is something odd about the ForeColor property of a read only System.Windows.Form.TextBox which I haven't seen documented, although I haven't looked very hard.I've noticed that a foreground colour change only takes effect after the background colour has been changed once. After that...

ListView Group Sorter

17 Aug 2009 by Paw Jershauge

An easy to use ListView group sorter (very simple).

What is the Extra Advantage of Delegate

30 May 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Well, if you try to create artificially simplified use cases as you present in your Question, you don't have a chance to see "Extra Advantage", right?I would prefer talking not about "advantage", but about a principal technological feature. What's so special about delegates; what is the...

Resolve DesignMode for a User Control

26 Aug 2012 by Wendelius

The tip shows one way to resolve if a user control is in design mode.

Ownerdrawn ComboBox Example

5 Jul 2013 by Johnny J.

A sample owner-drawn ComboBox

ExHtmlEditor - Express WYSIWYG HTML Visual Editor

14 Aug 2013 by adriancs

A program/application for learning and writing HTML. Get instant visual effect side by side with your code as you type. Support HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 elements.

Remove flickering due to TableLayoutPanel & Panel in windows form ...

16 Feb 2014 by RhishikeshLathe

Completely Remove flickering due to TableLayoutPanel & Panel in windows form go as follows:=-1. Set double buffered property of Form =true.2. Paste Following 2 functions in form.cs#region .. Double Buffered function .. public static void...

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

Count Number of Unique Colors in an Image

19 Feb 2011 by #realJSOP

Determine the number of unique colors in an image

Alternate way for Thread.Suspend() and Thread.Resume();

22 Mar 2012 by Shahin Khorshidnia

HelloLook at this:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.eventwaithandle.aspx[^]And pay attention to EventWaitHandle.WaitOnehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.eventwaithandle.waitone.aspx[^]

How the Windows built-in watchdog infrastructure can monitor performance counters and trigger alerts

9 Mar 2010 by marc ochsenmeier

Use the new PLA interface to monitor performance counters and trigger alerts.

User Control(Winforms) events from child controls.

7 Feb 2011 by Espen Harlinn

Windows Forms does not support the idea of event bubbling, but you can always add an event to your UserControl, route all mouse click events for the child controls to a single event handler, and then fire the event.RegardsEspen Harlinn

Password Athentication through voice in C#

26 Jul 2011 by OriginalGriff

For goodness sake! You need to do some basic research into voice regocnition. As I suggested to you yesterday, google can help, but you are going to have to do some work.The simple approach you are trying to use will never work. Why not? A first, simple reason:When did you start talking...

How do i count SUNDAY's in a particular MONTH

29 Nov 2011 by Savalia Manoj M

You Can try it in MS-SQL Like Declare @Month BigintSet @Month =11Declare @date date;Set @date='2011-11-01'while DATEPART(Month,@date)=@MonthBegin --Select DATEPART(DAY,@date); --Select DATEPART( WEEKDAY, @DATE ) DECLARE @Name VARCHAR(20) SELECT @Name = CASE (...

SQL-Server-2005

How to change forecolor of text when textbox is readonly

3 Apr 2012 by OriginalGriff

You can't, without a lot of work.When you set the textbox to readonly, the foreground and background colours are overridden and ignored in favour of the system disabled colors - and it is a BAAAAD idea to change them.The easiest way to do it would be to create your own control, derived...

ToolStrip with Custom ToolTip

1 May 2012 by Ivan Ičin

Custom WinForm ToolStrip that fixes some of the ToolTip related problems and adds few related features

How to Paint on Top of a ProgressBar using C#

6 Mar 2016 by Hiske Bekkering

A simple explanation of how to synchronize custom painting with a ProgressBar's default painting.

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

20 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps

28 Apr 2010 by Keith Barrow

If you have a Winforms application that auto loads data, there is no doubt that you’ll have come across the problem of data loading at design time (i.e. when opening the code in the designer). At best, this slows the designer down, at worst it might crash VS and prevent the control from...

Custom VisualStudio 2008-style MenuStrip and ToolStrip Renderer in C#

1 Apr 2010 by Brian C Hart

An adaptation of Nick Thissen's article on VBForums translated to C# and bottled up into a Class Library you can just drop into your projects.

Use Custom Events from your WCF ServiceHost

26 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

When you need to communicate with the app that contains your ServiceHost object, use custom events

SelectedValueChanged fires even when the value is not changed?

9 Apr 2011 by Nish Nishant

Yeah, that is standard behavior with the ComboBox (in Winforms). Once you drop down the control, then even if you select the same item that was previously selected, SelectedValueChanged will fire! I reckon you'd have to keep a currentSelectedValue and then compare against that each time it...

How do i make a button click in one form change an option in another form? C#

5 May 2011 by OriginalGriff

Please don't!That's the simple answer. You can't access the buttons on a differnt form because they are declared private by default. If they weren't, then the two forms are always tied together - if you change one, you have to look at how that change might affect the other form. This makes...

How to Delete a Specific Line in a Text File[Improved_vs2]

4 Jun 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

What Abhinav suggested is not so practical in terms of performance and may not be suitable for big files.Here is what you can do:static void CopyFileWithExcludedLine(string inputFileName, string outputFileName, ulong excludeLine) { ulong lineCounter = 0; ...

Enabling and Disabling TaskManager

27 Jun 2011 by charles henington

TaskbarNotifiers, Resizable Skinned MSN Messenger-Like Popups with Video

8 Jan 2012 by Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

Resizable Skins Made from Web Pages with Video

how to reset global variable in c#

31 Jan 2012 by CPallini

C# has no global variables. Possibly do you mean a class member variable?In the reset button you are declaring (and initializing) a new instance of the variable and thus shadowing the (possible) class member variable.You have to change (in the reset button command handler) from:...

C# From inherit both interface and abstract class.

16 Jul 2012 by OriginalGriff

There is only one way: to create an abstract class that inherits Form, and derive your form from that. It can then also implement the interfaces.You cannot derive from an abstract class and the Form class together - the inheritance hierarchy only allows the one base class, abstract or...

convert this into c# syntax?

19 Sep 2014 by Abdul Samad KP

public void Excecutesql( params object[] Obj) { }

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK: Create Imaging Apps Easily

8 Jun 2015 by Dirk_Strauss

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK - I had the pleasure of taking the SDK for a spin, and let me tell you it was well worth it.

What is meant by registering an assembly?

2 Sep 2015 by Richard MacCutchan

Please learn how to use Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=register+assembly+in+GAC[^].

What is meant by registering an assembly?

2 Sep 2015 by Maciej Los

The best way to learn is to read the documentation:Global Assembly Cache[^]How to: Install an Assembly into the Global Assembly Cache[^]

Automated UI Testing - An Alternative Approach for Agile Teams

1 Oct 2015 by Steve Aube 1

This article describes a new alternative approach for Automated Testing of User Interfaces (UI).

Embedding an ObjectListView in a ComboBox

8 Nov 2016 by Niemand25

A simple way to place any ObjectListView inside a ComboBox

custom-controls

21st Card Magic in C#.NET

10 Nov 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Coding a simple magic with cards!

Display Loading Indicator in Windows Form Application

7 Dec 2017 by Dukhabandhu Sahoo

This article explains how to display a loading indicator (a GIF image) in Windows Forms application when some long running task is performed in the background.

An Improved WYSIWYG Print Dialog and Page Preview for Rich Text

13 Aug 2020 by Howard 9448490

Windows Forms Print Dialog for rich text with accurate page preview and zooming

YAPM (Yet Another Password Manager)

10 Mar 2018 by Joe Dillon

This article describes the security techniques required to create a secure offline password manager and how the Libsodium library has been used to achieve this. YAPM stores passwords with AES encryption and authenticates users with an Argon2 hash.

Knit - A Visual Studio Add-In

30 Dec 2007 by AGD-H

Knit is a Visual Studio add-in tool that allows a developer to apply multi-step patterns to solution and assembly meta-data.

Design pattern / sample code for user management

26 Jan 2010 by #realJSOP

My most often used design pattern is the SWC pattern (Start Writing Code). It has served me well for almost 30 years.

Implementing Two-way Binding of a Numeric Value to a String (such as TextBox.Text)

26 Apr 2010 by George Henry 1954

Presents a class that facilitates high-usability binding of an ordinary TextBox to a numeric property

Button press - opens the folder

31 May 2010 by PSK_

On button click Try this. Process.Start(@"C:\YourFolder\"); The Process class exists in System.Diagnostics namespace.

Build a Label on Button click

1 Nov 2010 by Dave Paras

Copy following code in the click event of button.Don't forget to change the Location of button, next time...private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){ System.Windows.Forms.Label lbl = new Label(); lbl.Text = "Paras" lbl.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0); ...

What is the Extra Advantage of Delegate

31 Jan 2011 by Debojyoti Majumder

One more point I want to add.If you want to use LoadLibrary()/GetProcAddress() to use methods of .dll files you have use delegates.It's one of the ways to connect C# codes to C++ codes.

c sharp drawing (graphic)

2 May 2011 by Olivier Levrey

Handle the Paint event for your panel, and put all your drawing code inside that handler.public Form1(){ InitializeComponent(); //handle the Paint event for the panel panel1.Paint += (sender, e) => { //put you drawing code here //and use...

How can I go about closing a Child form if it's already open?

22 May 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

First of all, there is not such relationship as child-parent forms. [EDIT: There are MDIParent and MDIChildren, but this is not exactly the same thing. Also, I don't think we discuss MDI. Thanks to CS2011 who pointed out that relationship between forms in case of MDI.] There are Owned...

Password Athentication through voice in C#

27 Jul 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Totally wrong approach! I agree with Griff. Your problem is fairly simple.Store text password in your database. Do it in hashed form using some cryptographic hash function, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function[^]. Use one of the functions from the SHA family, see...

How to broadcast a data over Tcp/Ip in C#.Net

12 Sep 2011 by Kim Togo

If you want to use TCP connection, then there is NO broadcast. TCP[^] is a point to point protocol.Check out UDP[^].

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

20 Nov 2011 by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class

20 Dec 2011 by Giorgi Dalakishvili

Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class

Shared resources, images and the designer

26 Jan 2012 by hoernchenmeister

Hi all,Our application consists of several solutions. It uses MEF to plugin functional parts, that is all fine.I now try to find a way to share resources across all of those projects.Currently I create a dll containing a public resource file hosting images I need in all of my other...

Alternate way for Thread.Suspend() and Thread.Resume();

22 Mar 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I would like to add to the correct answer by Shahin. Using WaitOne if free from the problems of thread suspensions. If an instance of an event wait handle is not set, the calling thread waits in a special wait state. OS switches the calling thread off and do not schedule it back to execution...

Structure objects to textbox sorted by value of int object

29 Apr 2012 by OriginalGriff

Probably not, from your description.A TextBox only holds Text - strings, and sorting is not one of it's features.However, assuming your TextBox is multiline, it would be possible to put them into the TextBox in sorted order:struct MyStruct : IComparable { public string...

Error - LINQ/TransactionScope with multiple database connections

26 Jun 2012 by Wonde Tadesse

Have a look these articles.1.Distributed transactions and TransactionScope [how to get it?][^]2.Entity Framework & Transactions[^]3.TransactionScope and DataAdapters[^]4.Handling transactions in .Net using TransactionScope[^]

SQL-Server-2008

Rendering Text with OpenType Fonts Using GDI

6 Mar 2013 by wmjordan

Rendering text with OpenType fonts by P/Invoking GDI API in WinForm applications.

[OoB] Shooting Paintball Marker with Relay, Arduino and .NET WinForms

5 Oct 2014 by morzel

How to shoot paintball marker with relay, Arduino and .NET Winforms